How many extraction plants in NZ are this size ?
A large operation ?
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Nice to see them scraping clean the frames and the boxes, which is how it was done when I worked in an extracting room. Unfortunately the people who do my extracting now just bang them through, no effort to scrape anything.
Actually it depends on who is in the extracting room, there was one or two conscientous guys who did take the trouble.
Actually it depends on who is in the extracting room, there was one or two conscientous guys who did take the trouble.
We are all smaller beekeepers so perhaps don't know how big the corporates are. But I have never seen anything that big.
Bear in mind that with the non thixotrophic honey they are dealing with they can use radial honey extractors , but here with the emphasis on manuka we mostly use tangential extractors which slows the process a lot.
Bear in mind that with the non thixotrophic honey they are dealing with they can use radial honey extractors , but here with the emphasis on manuka we mostly use tangential extractors which slows the process a lot.
Interesting at the end their move from 660lb drums to 3300lb totes for honey storage and transport, wonder if anyone in NZ will move that way - seems unlikely?
my understanding there is a couple. there is someone with bigger extractor but i think its single line. i know there is some dual line setups but not sure what extractor they use.
but going from the vid i think that plant is a little inefficient. i would have expected more from a dual line with those size extractor and cycle times.
yes. its been a long time since we ran uncappers but i think top end was ok, the problem was usually the sides where it left a strip on each side.